sport
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spɔːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /spɔɹt/
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /spɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spoət/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
NounEdit
sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)
- (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
- The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
- (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Think it but a minute spent in sport.
- c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 21”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, OCLC 318419127, page 283:
- Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
- (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 2:
- Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
- a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper
- Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
- 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1]:
- At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- 1924 July, Ellis Butler, “The Little Tin Godlets”, in The Rotarian[2], volume 25, number 1, Rotary International, page 14:
- "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
- (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
Derived termsEdit
- air sport
- ask me one on sport
- autosport
- blood sport
- boardsport
- combat sport
- contact sport
- cue sport, cuesport
- dancesport
- extreme sport
- flying sport
- good sport
- individual sport
- mind sport
- motorsport
- multisport
- nonsport
- old sport
- poor sport
- professional sport
- radiosport
- spectator sport
- spoilsport
- sport fish, sportfish
- sport jacket
- sport stacking
- sport utility vehicle
- sportfishing
- sportful
- sporting
- sportive
- sportless
- sportlike
- sportsman
- sportsmanship
- sportswoman
- team sport
- watersport
- wheelchair sport
- winter sport
DescendantsEdit
- → Belarusian: спорт (sport)
- → Bulgarian: спорт (sport)
- → Catalan: esport
- → Cebuano: esport
- → Czech: sport
- → Danish: sport
- → Dutch: sport (see there for further descendants)
- → French: sport (see there for further descendants)
- → Georgian: სპორტი (sṗorṭi)
- → German: Sport (see there for further descendants)
- → Hebrew: ספורט
- → Hungarian: sport
- → Irish: spórt, spóirt
- → Italian: sport
- → Latvian: sports
- → Lithuanian: sportas
- → Lower Sorbian: sport
- → Macedonian: спорт (sport)
- → Norman: sport
- → Northern Kurdish: spor
- → Norwegian: sport
- → Polish: sport
- → Brazilian Portuguese: esporte
- → Russian: спорт (sport) (see there for further descendants)
- → Scottish Gaelic: spòrs
- → Serbo-Croatian: sport / спорт
- → Swahili: spoti
- → Swedish: sport
- → Thai: สปอร์ต (sà-bpɔ̀ɔt)
- → Uzbek: sport
From plural sports:
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- children sporting on the green
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He sports with his own life.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
- Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 57:4:
- Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
- Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- (transitive) To close (a door).
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
TranslationsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
NounEdit
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
- (countable) A sport; (uncountable) sports.
- Mijn buurman is dol op sport. ― My neighbour is keen on sports.
- Darts is de gezondste sport op aarde. ― Darts is the most healthy sport on Earth.
Derived termsEdit
- amateursport
- autosport
- balsport
- duiksport
- duursport
- hengelsport
- ijssport
- klimsport
- natuursport
- paardensport
- profsport
- rijsport
- rijwielsport
- roeisport
- sportartikel
- sportauto
- sportcomplex
- sportfiets
- sporthal
- sportheld
- sportheldin
- sportief
- sportjournalist
- sportkleding
- sportman
- sportpark
- sportterrein
- sportveld
- sportvereniging
- sportvliegtuig
- sportvrouw
- sportwagen
- thuissport
- tofsport
- topsport
- vechtsport
- watersport
- wintersport
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
NounEdit
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
sport
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
- imperative of sporten
AnagramsEdit
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Sport, from English sport.
NounEdit
sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sport | spordid |
genitive | spordi | sportide |
partitive | sporti | sporte / sportisid |
illative | sporti / spordisse | sportidesse / spordesse |
inessive | spordis | sportides / spordes |
elative | spordist | sportidest / spordest |
allative | spordile | sportidele / spordele |
adessive | spordil | sportidel / spordel |
ablative | spordilt | sportidelt / spordelt |
translative | spordiks | sportideks / spordeks |
terminative | spordini | sportideni |
essive | spordina | sportidena |
abessive | spordita | sportideta |
comitative | spordiga | sportidega |
ReferencesEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport m (plural sports)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “sport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport (plural sportok)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | sport | sportok |
accusative | sportot | sportokat |
dative | sportnak | sportoknak |
instrumental | sporttal | sportokkal |
causal-final | sportért | sportokért |
translative | sporttá | sportokká |
terminative | sportig | sportokig |
essive-formal | sportként | sportokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | sportban | sportokban |
superessive | sporton | sportokon |
adessive | sportnál | sportoknál |
illative | sportba | sportokba |
sublative | sportra | sportokra |
allative | sporthoz | sportokhoz |
elative | sportból | sportokból |
delative | sportról | sportokról |
ablative | sporttól | sportoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
sporté | sportoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
sportéi | sportokéi |
Possessive forms of sport | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | sportom | sportjaim |
2nd person sing. | sportod | sportjaid |
3rd person sing. | sportja | sportjai |
1st person plural | sportunk | sportjaink |
2nd person plural | sportotok | sportjaitok |
3rd person plural | sportjuk | sportjaik |
Derived termsEdit
- autósport
- csapatsport
- jégsport
- kajaksport
- kézilabdasport
- labdarúgósport
- lovassport
- motorsport
- repülősport
- sportadó
- sportakrobatika
- sportautó
- sportág
- sportbemutató
- sportcipő
- sportcsapat
- sportcsarnok
- sportcsatorna
- sportdiplomácia
- sportdíj
- sportegyesület
- sportejtőernyő
- sportember
- sportesemény
- sporteszköz
- sportélet
- sportfelszerelés
- sportfogadás
- sportgimnasztika
- sporthír
- sporthorgászat
- sportigazgató
- sportíró
- sportkedvelő
- sportklub
- sportkocsi
- sportkommentátor
- sportkormány
- sportlap
- sportlétesítmény
- sportlövészet
- sportlövő
- sportmedicina
- sportmenedzser
- sportminisztérium
- sportmúzeum
- sportműsor
- sportoktató
- sportorvos
- sportorvoslás
- sportpálya
- sportpolitika
- sportpszichológia
- sportpuska
- sportrendezvény
- sportrepülő
- sportriporter
- sportruha
- sportruházat
- sportszakosztály
- sportszatyor
- sportszellem
- sportszer
- sportszervezet
- sportszervező
- sportszövetség
- sportszponzorálás
- sporttábor
- sporttársadalom
- sporttáska
- sportterápia
- sporttörténet
- sporttörténész
- sporttörvény
- sporttudomány
- sporttüdő
- sportuszoda
- sportújság
- sportújságírás
- sportújságíró
- sportünnep
- sportünnepély
- sportverseny
- sportvezető
- sportviadal
- sportvitorlás
- sportvitorlázás
- tömegsport
- úszósport
- versenysport
- vívósport
- vízilabdasport
Further readingEdit
- sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English sport.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport m (invariable)
- sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
- hobby, pastime
- fare qualcosa per sport ― to do something for fun
Derived termsEdit
Lower SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport m
- sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sport”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
NormanEdit
NounEdit
sport m (plural sports)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
sport
- past participle of spore
ReferencesEdit
- “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sport n (plural sporturi)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sport | sportul | (niște) sporturi | sporturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) sport | sportului | (unor) sporturi | sporturilor |
vocative | sportule | sporturilor |
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- špȍrt (Croatia)
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
spȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling спо̏рт)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | spȍrt | spòrtovi |
genitive | sporta | sportova |
dative | sportu | sportovima |
accusative | sport | sportove |
vocative | sporte | sportovi |
locative | sportu | sportovima |
instrumental | sportom | sportovima |
Derived termsEdit
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of sport | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sport | sporten | sporter | sporterna |
Genitive | sports | sportens | sporters | sporternas |
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
sport
AnagramsEdit
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sport c (plural sporten)
- sport (physical activity)
Further readingEdit
- “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011